Laura O'Brien

She/Her. PhD Candidate, Literacy Coach. Mom, teacher, book lover, continuous learner. Living on Treaty 4 territory.

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@NateJoseph19 I’m a bit confused - it’s free for all ELA and math? But then $60 for the other subjects?

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@Mrsbayda @MrsSNorman @burnsmk1 @tetheredtoed1 @reading_league @ILAToday @nasponline Yup. He’s already in my school division. We need to get some people to push back! Either of you coming to the Dyslexia Canada event in Regina this week? Update on the Human Rights report.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

In this episode of Chalk & Talk, Anna Stokke explores what to do when a math program or education initiative doesn’t seem to work, but you’re told "research shows" that it does.

👉 How do you ask for evidence? What actually counts as evidence? And what happens when people try to shut the conversation down?

Based on her ResearchEd Toronto 2025 talk, Anna unpacks the predictable pushback that often follows when people start asking hard questions—and how to respond.

#ChalkandTalk #MathEducation #ScienceOfLearning #Education #PodcastTeaser

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@Mrsbayda @burnsmk1 @tetheredtoed1 @reading_league @ILAToday @nasponline Are you kidding me? That and the CC3? Who is making these decisions?!?

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@burnsmk1 So…the Castles and Coltheart was initially a diagnostic, right? Then why/how does it just get modified into what is now the CC3 and used as a screener? Do you know of ANY research that validates the CC3 as a screener?
I’m thinking that this may be my dissertation topic….

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@MmeLockhartLDS @demetriosnAB 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Maybe if the provincial screener actually had the ability to identify kids at risk instead of only identifying the very very weakest they would be in a better place. And now Saskatchewan follows……

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@burnsmk1 @ReadingShanahan Do you know of any research that would look at comparing reading screeners? I’m looking for anything that may point to whether different screeners identify significantly different amounts of students as at risk?

[Columbus Blue Jackets @BlueJacketsNHL]

SEVO SHOOTS, SEVO SCORESSSS!!! 💥

CBJ x @FanaticsBook

[Science of Reading Classroom @SoRclassroom]

@SorforMore Our advice to school leaders: find the disruptors

https://t.co/lBT0V3of76

[Justin Browning @SorforMore]

Disruptors are needed, but not always welcomed in this work.

This is spot on…

https://t.co/fJ2lsgKHwZ

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@CBJ_Opinions And how about Seversons 6 blocked shots!

[Columbus Blue Jackets @BlueJacketsNHL]

SEVO SERVES ONE UP! 🚨

CBJ x @FanaticsBook

[Jeff Svoboda @JacketsInsider]

🚨 #CBJ goal: Damon Severson

Oh my. That was just a rocket. The Jackets get the puck to Dmitri Voronkov with space in the middle of the ice, he drops a pass to Severson, and he simply rips a slapper past Meriläinen.

CBJ up 2-0 1:21 into the second.

[Jeff Svoboda @JacketsInsider]

Damon Severson extended his point streak to four games with his goal earlier this period, while Cole Sillinger now has a two-assist night upon his last-minute move up the lineup. #CBJ

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@MrZachG The amount of daily “free time” my son gets because he is “done” is astonishing.

[Laura O'Brien @Quest4Readers]

@smorrisey Is this something that is available for teachers to use?

[Nate Joseph @NateJoseph19]

How do we support struggling readers in grades 4 and up?

This article reviews over 23 meta-analyses on the topic, provides a step by step guide to intervention, and new free resources, including a phonics app that can create up to 400 pages of workbooks.

https://t.co/gu5rN0ys62

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Interventionists and Paras:

We spent time and effort getting these five kids assessed, placed, and transported to a dedicated intervention space during valuable instructional time.

For goodness sakes, don’t waste the opportunity on Bingo games. They’ll never catch up then!

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

When you conduct research on children, you have to go through all sorts of ethical procedures to ensure the intervention won’t penalize the child. No need to worry about experimenting on children with disproven methods on a regular, large scale basis though 🤦‍♂️

[Megan Kruse @bmkruse3]

Reflecting on the critical importance of implementation science in my latest blogpost: https://t.co/KoRVCIpTSc
@ImpScience @ReadingLeagueIA @DDIA13 @NathanielRSwain @sstollar6 https://t.co/9ErP5ptk12 @AngieHanlin